Its my birthday today! Im going up to my Mums house for dinner tonight. I see her this afternoon and she asks me what kind of cake I am bringing.

Is this what happens when you start cake decorating. You have to make your own cake?

I had 40 minutes after I cooked the cake to decorate! Still cant get that BC smooth! Will go and buy one of those foam roller things to try.

Would love to know what you guys do for your own birthdays! Have a great night everyone.

Cheers
Kathryn

Awww, your birthday cake is so cute! I baked one for myself in August at the same time I was baking one for my nephew's BD a couple of days before mine. On my BD my DS & DIL brought me a Baskin Robbins ice cream cake, chocolate cake, pistacio almond ice cream (my favorite), and I was very surprised.

Bet you will have surprises for your BD too, even though you baked your own cake, and you have to admit, nobody could have done it better!

Happy Birthday To You! Janice

What a cute cake!

When I get a cake at all, my dh buys an ice cream cake at Ben & Jerry's. (mmmmm Cherry Garcia!) I don't care for buttercream or whipped icing, and love ice cream, so that works just fine for me.

I haven't made my own birthday cake before, but I did do the cake for my Master's degree celebration. (Wilton graduation cap pan with chocolate tassel and buttercream roses)

RP

Very cute!! I honestly don't eat alot of cake...I know that's taboo to say around here, but it's true. My mom makes a wicked homemade ice cream cake that I love, I also like no bake cherry cheese cake. Usually my mom makes my sister and I cakes for our birthdays, even though we're older now...

That truned out cute. I don't usually have a regular cake on my birthday. My mom gets me a cheesecake instead! I love cake, but making so much takes some of the trill out of them.

Your cake turned out so cute!

On my birthday, I do not bake my own cake!!! I make so many the rest of the time, I don't even want to see cake for my birthday! I prefer to go out to eat for my birthday, have dessert there, or skip it all together!

Your cake is too cute I make my own cake; my husband tried one year and drove me crazy by asking for help with every step, and that was just a mix cake. After that I figured it would be easier to make my own!

-Lisa

Wait! WE get BDay cakes!!!!???

LOL

Happy Birthday!! And your cake is too cute!!

I usually get an ice cream cake. I might end up baking myself my own next year, but we'll have to see how much I want to put into it. It would be good practise for me as I could be as creative as I wanted and not have to worry about someone being disappointed with the outcome.

I usually don't make my own cake, my husband usually buys one or my mom will try to decorate one! I just have to keep my mouth shut as she "decorates"! No, I really do appreciate it!
My mother-in-law is a cake decorator too so she usually makes me an awesome cake when we go to her house!
Have a very happy birthday!
Lisa

Happy Birthday Kathryn! Very cute cake!

You know, I guess I never even thought about a cake for me?!?!? I'm not baking it.........

Your cake is adorable.

I share my birthday with my brother so I made him a cake this year and just shared with him. Normally my Mom will make us a cake together though. Nothing fancy just a cake with some icing. Which is all I need.

My husband bakes my cake. He makes me an angel food cake filled with a lemon pie filling and then ices it with a meringue kind of icing. It is sooo yummy . I tried to help him out one year, and he got mad at me and sent me to the living room .

My husband usually makes my cake too, he even asks me what I want. He is so cute

My birthday is coming up in November and to completely honest, with all the cakes I been making over the last 3 weeks, I don't want cake for my birthday. I think I will just be happy to have the day/night off!

Just for fun, I made my own this year...needed the practice! My Dad also brought a 10 layer chocolate-pecan cake over.

We eat so much cake these days that when it's my birthday I want a DQ Ice Cream cake! My mom usually helps my niece make me an Angel Food cake too. It's certainly nothing fancy but that's okay as I know it's made with love (my niece is only 6).

Every year for my birthday my hubby and my three kids take me to Cheesecake Factory!!!! Each year I try a different cheesecake! One of these days my husband and when the three boys get older will make me a cake because that is something I would love to see done... I have been teaching my hubby a few things but he is good with numbers not baking!!!!!!

Happy Birthday. My birthday is Sat. I'm making my own cake. I need a gluten free cake and bakeries don't make them. It also will give me a chance to practice those darn roses.

A cake for our Birthdays I didnt know that happened.
Wow things like that happen?
Your birthday cake was really cute kuddos to the decorator.
Oh and happy late Birthday too.

I don't make my own birthday cake either, and if I did it would be something like a flourless chocolate cake.

This past birthday my husband and two boys made me my birthday cake...just a chocolate mix cake, but it was yummy. It was an extra special birthday because I had just come home from the hospital after having my third baby. She was born on my birthday!

Courtney

I wanted to this year but I was busy with another cake so I didn't have one at all. I don't mind doing it, it's practice to me Happy Birthday BTW

It's usually store bought, but I like our store's cakes so I don't mind! One year it was from a local bakery but they're no longer in business. One year dh didn't plan in advance, so he didn't have one. I told him I just wanted a nap!!! When I woke up, he had one of my cook books out and was trying to make one from scratch!!! It was yellow cake, but it fell. I can't remember if there was frosting or not. He was just so discouraged from the cake falling!!!

my mother is a baking fiend. she bakes cakes for everyone/occasion it seems just b/c she loves to do it!

last year she made me a 2 layer 6" strawberry cake...yummy!

I was contemplating making my own cake this weekend, but I am working, and I think the Cheesecake Factory sounds like a GREAT tradition to start!!!

Angie

On my last bday we had a 4 day old baby to deal with jeje.. so I told my hubby to buy me a cake.. He wanted to bake it but I did not wanted the trouble :O)

I really like to buy cake for my bday because I love fresh fruit cakes with bavarian cream (too much trouble to make for myself).

I learned decorating from my mother, so either she makes one or my girls buy an icecream cake for me.

Me, and I wouldn't have it any other way - I'm too hard to please! At least when I do it, I know it'll be gooood lol!